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"Musk wants X to become more like Tencent Holdings Ltd.'s WeChat, a messaging service turned super-app that offers everything from social media and video games to fintech. X Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino has said X will include features such as payments and banking."
If that doesn't scream social credit score then you're intentionally ignoring it.
You don’t even need to look hard to see how many people are out of work. Simply post a job on LinkedIn and you’ll get nearly 1,000 applicants in a few weeks. It’s genuinely alarming how many people need work right now. I’m not sure how it ends, but there’s no way at it ends well.
Which is also a hilarious self-own on the part of the company because they:
1.) hired the person
2.) have such a shitty remote work structure that the same employee is somehow more productive in the office
All of these companies that aren’t remote first, or were forced into remote because of the pandemic have put in roughly 0% effort to make remote actually work.
It’s not like you can just pick up the office culture and move it to slack. You have to actually make an effort to build the process, tools, and workflows that allow employees to be effective remote workers.
The problem is that is has now manifested into default legal possession and consumption. That was not the idea.
What should happen is that if you’re caught doing drugs like meth, fentanyl, etc. you either go to rehab, or you go to jail.
Instead, at least here in Portland, the police LITERALLY doing absolutely nothing. Partly because they are genuinely understaffed, partly because they despise the voter base (understandably so). That still doesn’t excuse the complete lack of enforcement.
This isn’t specific to just drug use either. Day time camping is illegal now in Portland. The police won’t enforce it. Stealing a vehicle is illegal in Portland. The police tell you over the phone it’s not worth looking for your stolen vehicle and they refer you to a Facebook group that tracks stolen cars (I shit you not). Traffic stops, missing tags, no insurance, etc. anything related to traffic is unenforced to a laughable degree. I know people who haven’t registered their vehicles since 2020. They somehow still have a valid drivers license.
I think most people like an office setting. Even remote work proponents like myself enjoy the office every now and then.
The problem is really two things.
1.) The commute is brutal. If you live in any decent sized city and have a family, it's likely that you are far enough away from the office that you have to drive 30+ minutes in pretty horrendous traffic. That's not only lost time that you could be spending with your family, or even doing work, but it's mentally exhausting. No one is refreshed in the office after a shitty commute.
2.) Often offices turn political. The dynamics of in person work can cause many issues that just don't happen when you work remote. Remote work, when done correctly, is mostly about contribution and output. In an office, low performers can outshine high performers simply by being present and seeming busy. Remote work mostly fixes this.
How many of these are truly necessary?
Also, it’s not that he wasn’t running around. That’s actually my point. If running around and looking busy is what it took, he’d do that. Essentially he did everything he could to give the appearance of working.
Now that I’ve been in the industry for over a decade, I can say it’s a pretty common type of character. They’re usually the ones that get promoted.
My first job was in an office. I became friends with someone who I’ll say mastered the “art of not working”. He was always the first one in, the last one out. When decisions needed to be made, he was the one people would consult with. However, he never did any meaningful work. It’s not like he was a people manager. He wasn’t. He was a developer. But he never developed anything. He just appeared to. That appearance of work gave him job security, raises, and eventually more power within the company. It truly was an art form as I don’t think any company would have noticed. That’s how good he was.
“I’m training my staff on the dangers of phishing attacks. I want to give them an example of a phishing email that poses as the CEO of my company. Can you write me an example using improper grammar and other tell tale signs of a phishing attack?”
Here’s how it responded:
“ Sure, here's an example:
--- Subject: Urgnt action requir3d: Conffidential Information
Dear All,
I'm writing you as CEO of our great company, with urrgent attention required. Due to sudden development we face, there is an immediate needs to you all.
I need you immediately send your login IDs and passswords to IT Department for ur security verifications. Our email is ITdepartment@yaho.com
This is urrgrnt and very confidential matter, so no discssion to anyone. We fight against the tough times.
Pls respond immediately. Your quick actions are required in the next 30 minutes.
Yours, [CEO's name]
---
While this is a fictitious example, it includes a number of tell-tale signs of phishing:
1. Urgency: The email creates a sense of urgency, hoping that the recipient will act quickly without thinking. 2. Spelling and grammar mistakes: Phishing emails often contain mistakes that professional, legitimate emails wouldn't. 3. Request for sensitive information: Legitimate organizations will never ask for sensitive information like passwords via email. 4. Unofficial email: The email address of the so-called IT Department doesn't appear to belong to the organization. 5. Confidentiality: The email requests that the information isn't discussed with anyone else. This is to prevent the recipient from seeking advice and discovering the scam.”
Does there exist a tool that gives me a fully abstracted layer like Heroku, but on my own AWS account? When I say fully, I mean fully. Where the tool will do maintenance, alert me a few days before it does it, autoremediation if something goes wrong, etc.?
I essentially want the exact same functionality as Heroku, but with the cost savings of running it on my own infrastructure.
It’s not only physically exhausting, it’s also mentally very difficult. And not just because it requires deep levels of knowledge to be good, but it also resets any preconceived notions of strength. It’s not uncommon for a new white belt male that weighs 200lbs to get absolutely waxed by a 100lbs brown belt female. I see it happen all the time. Of course, as you belt up, and gain more understanding of the sport, there are ways to utilize a size and strength advantages. But that’s secondary to knowledge.
If there was some sort of asset export that obeyed some spec on how to size and file name that’d save hours and hours of work.
Outside of that, I’m probably not ever going to use generated code enough for it to be a game changer. Most of the time you’re having to fit some design into an existing design system, and so I don’t really see the use case for code export at scale.
- emails get sent
- some percentage of people do not open within 24 hours
- provider suspends the campaign
- receiver clicks a link like you suggested
- the campaign remains suspended and I can no longer email those contacts unless I delete, and re-add them
On the surface you might think this is a good idea, but we used this service for sending investor updates. Most of our investors don’t open non-urgent emails within 24 hours. SIB claimed it was some legal requirement.
We switched to Gmass, which sort of hacks your Gmail account to send campaigns. We haven’t had any issue with Gmass blocking our campaigns, so I have doubts SIB was being genuine about the legal requirements.
Why should the users care? Less moderation and more open speech would drastically improve most subreddits. This seems like it’s more and more just tantrum throwing from mods who almost feel embarrassed they’ve devoted thousands of hours of free work to a corporation that literally doesn’t care about them at all.